decazeville
The CCC presents Decazeville – 2012.08.01 – 11:00:00, the new solo exhibition by Anne-Valérie Gasc. This exhibition focuses on the project entitled “Crash Box “ that has been developed by the artist since 2010.
The artist has put together a variety of devices enabling her to film the complete caving-in of the insides of buildings slated for demolition. Retreating from the idea of an event, instead Anne-Valérie Gasc is attempting to grasp what is invisible, to capture the minute moment when reality shifts but we are unable to sense it. To do this, she has developed a variety of models of “Crash Box”. These are ‘black boxes’, intended to protect the film camera which is placed in the middle of the demolition site. For her exhibition at the CCC, Anne-Valérie Gasc concentrates on one of the three sites that she worked on, with assistance from the company GINGER-CEBTP DEMOLITION: the demolition of the Combettes Tower in Decazeville in 2012.
Anne-Valérie Gasc is presenting the three ‘Crash Boxes’ used on the demolition sites, as well as the film shot from one of these embedded cameras. For this exhibition she has also created a new piece called “Decazeville / 2012.08.01/11 :00 :00 , which is a huge countdown, counting the passage of time and converging, as does the entire exhibition, to the moment of the detonation creating an explosion of light.
Extrait du communiqué de presse – 2013
In collaboration with:
la Fondation d’entreprise Ricard : projection 26 June
le FRAC PACA, Marseilles : ‘Crash Boxes’ exhibition from 24 August to 1 September 2013
Supported by: GINGER-CEBTP DEMOLITION, l’Atelier NI, Marseilles Provence 2013, Sextant and others.
anne-valérie gasc
Since the middle of the 2000s, Anne-Valérie Gascelle has spearheaded projects which are both strategies of destruction intended to provoke the destruction of reality and call into question what can be removed, what is permanent and established. Whether the artist creates destruction using explosives, sound waves, hydraulic sabotage, by weakening structures or by fire, each strategy devised by the artist is designed to create this sense of a tipping point, one where there are no bearings in terms of time and space. Within these gaps where doubt exists, art can happen “at the precise moment when nothing is certain, or to put it differently, when everything is possible”-V. Gasc).
L’artiste aime, pour définir sa démarche et plus largement le rôle de l’artiste, citer Michel Foucault : « Je suis un artificier. Je fabrique quelque chose qui sert finalement à un siège, à une guerre, à une destruction. Je ne suis pas pour la destruction, mais je suis pour qu’on puisse passer, pour qu’on puisse avancer, pour qu’on puisse faire tomber les murs… » (« Je suis un artificier » 1975, in Roger-Pol Droit, Michel Foucault, entretiens)
Anne-Valérie Gasc is represented by the Galerie Rue Visconti.
The CCC presents Decazeville – 2012.08.01 – 11:00:00, the new solo exhibition by Anne-Valérie Gasc. This exhibition focuses on the project entitled “Crash Box “ that has been developed by the artist since 2010.
The artist has put together a variety of devices enabling her to film the complete caving-in of the insides of buildings slated for demolition. Retreating from the idea of an event, instead Anne-Valérie Gasc is attempting to grasp what is invisible, to capture the minute moment when reality shifts but we are unable to sense it. To do this, she has developed a variety of models of “Crash Box”. These are ‘black boxes’, intended to protect the film camera which is placed in the middle of the demolition site. For her exhibition at the CCC, Anne-Valérie Gasc concentrates on one of the three sites that she worked on, with assistance from the company GINGER-CEBTP DEMOLITION: the demolition of the Combettes Tower in Decazeville in 2012.
Anne-Valérie Gasc is presenting the three ‘Crash Boxes’ used on the demolition sites, as well as the film shot from one of these embedded cameras. For this exhibition she has also created a new piece called “Decazeville / 2012.08.01/11 :00 :00 , which is a huge countdown, counting the passage of time and converging, as does the entire exhibition, to the moment of the detonation creating an explosion of light.
Extrait du communiqué de presse – 2013
In collaboration with:
la Fondation d’entreprise Ricard : projection 26 June
le FRAC PACA, Marseilles : ‘Crash Boxes’ exhibition from 24 August to 1 September 2013
Supported by: GINGER-CEBTP DEMOLITION, l’Atelier NI, Marseilles Provence 2013, Sextant and others.
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